Tag: Portugal

The all-female media producers EVA are showing the life and work of a few Portuguese Urban Sketchers, in the short Youtube-based webseries Urban Sketchers Journals. Each short episode shows a sketcher in their element, speaking their mind about materials, attitudes and subjects of choice.

I had a lot of fun, being filmed and interviewed by the extremely professional crew of camerawomen Paula Soares (also director) and Ana Pinheiro, for the fourth episode in the series. Check out all the series here!

On an invitation from Carlos Marques, of the Academia de Pintura Parque das Nações, Pedro Alves and I will teach two urban sketching workshops. We’re going to share tips and techniques on how to construct a people-centered sketch. The stories of everyday people of Parque das Nações will be the focus of the demos and three outdoor sketching exercises.

Join us, and together, we will RULE the galaxy… oh wait! That’s our other project. For more info and registrations, please click here! Make sure to check the “urbansketching” workshops on the 3rd and 10th, on the right side of the page.

Also, check out the workshops on the 4th and 11th, by our friend and talented sketcher António Procópio!

A few weeks ago I spent a weekend accompanied by a filming crew of EVA, an all-female video content producer. Their latest project, the Urban Sketchers Journals, is a monthly webseries which features one urban sketcher per episode. I got the honor of being the fourth episode featured sketcher. Paula and Ana’s final product is under work and coming soon. Meanwhile, you can get a glimpse of their professionalism and dedication with this teaser on Youtube. *Subtitled in English*

The Night Sketching workshop by the Pedros (Alves and Loureiro) returns to Portugal, after touring Barcelona and Riga. On May the 18th, we’ll get busy sketching and painting the medieval walled town of Óbidos.

This workshop is supported by Latitudes and sponsored by Posca pens. Each participant will get a free white Posca, ideal to sketch light sources over a watercolor wash.

Last weekend, the iconic MAAT in Lisboa opened its doors to a group of sketchers, willing to see reality in a different way. In a workshop guided by Tomás Reis and I – Drawing Ground Zero – participants learned how to deconstruct their preconceptions on sketching, and pushed themselves to unify what they saw in a single-minded gesture, line by line.

Through demos and exercises on topographic drawing, the group produced drawings without edges, volumes instead of shapes, meshes of reality based on surfaces and textures alone.

The workshop was heavily based on João Louro‘s exhibition, Linguistic Ground Zero, featured in the museum, where the leveling of concepts and language were key to understanding the world from a different perspective.

Afterwards, all the participants got a free tour around the exhibitions of the museum. The reception we had at MAAT was outstanding, and we have to thank all the people there for having and supporting us, and to Patrícia Canastreiro for her excellent photo reportage!